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Grant Hutchinson
@splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Interface considerations.
Gadget accumulation.
Typography.

Maintainer of the Newton FAQ, Newton Glossary, and @newtontalk mailing list.

Tootcasting live from […]

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splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@glennf Hey, Glenn … do you happen to have any contact information for Jeremy Templer? I’m trying to track down if he has an archive of his “Newton Assist” columns that he penned for Macworld Australia.
January 8, 2026 at 5:18 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
There is some amazing serendipitous connection between these two posts by @justsnook and @RetroViator …
A screenshot of sequential Mastodon posts.
January 8, 2026 at 5:15 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Thanks to @nulleric, I can now browse the #TinkerDifferent forums using an #applenewton device.
Screenshot of the Tinker Different forums displayed on a Newton MessagePad 2100 running Steve Weyer’s Newt’s Cape browser. Ooh, tables.
January 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I don’t think that 2025 was all that bad of a year, even considering that my amazing dad passed away last week at the age of 90. More good things happened than awful, quite frankly. Onward, everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Announcing the latest release of the Newton Glossary!

This edition contains 1,974 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #applenewton.

https://newtonglossary.com

Since the last update, 24 new terms have been added.

Check out the latest […]
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mastodon.social
December 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This setup looks eerily similar to one of my #applenewton “Bunwarmer” prototypes.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/splorp/32398422153/
https://digipres.club/@foone/115725577103434351
Newton “Bunwarmer” Prototype
Front view. A prototype of an early Newton MessagePad. This device essentially consists of the circuitry from an Original MessagePad (OMP) or “Junior” device, with an extra set of ROM sockets grafted on. It boots into a Japanese prerelease version of the Newton OS (J-1b1.00) and was used by a company called Everchanging for testing localized versions of their FilePad and PowerForms products.
www.flickr.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Oh, Joe Clark … what a prosaic scallawag.
https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115663262318327516
Classic Web (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image “Now every damn milquetoast æsthete cursing himself for still being stuck working at the Barnes & Noble in Evanston, Reston, or Laramie will want to start his own blog.” fawny.org in 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20020823224052if_/http://www.fawny.org:80/decon-blog.html
indieweb.social
December 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Paging @BijouType !!!
https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115661003560342365
Classic Web (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image ultrasparky.org in 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20020930093414/http://www.ultrasparky.org/
indieweb.social
December 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Me, but #applenewton devices instead of Bronze Age axes.
https://archaeo.social/@mrundkvist/115696757193196745
Martin Rundkvist (@[email protected])
I'm working on a study of Bronze Age axes, and I find it a little hard to articulate why. * I don't get paid. * Another journal paper won't make any difference for my employability at this stage. * Almost nobody knows or cares that these axes exist. I think the main reasons I do this is * It's fun. * I'm one of the few who can do this well. * I've dedicated my life to expanding our scientific knowledge. #archaeology #career
archaeo.social
December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
After a bunch of back and forth with some of the @getkirby team, it turns out that an issue I reported (involving extra spaces being inserted around links in excerpted text) was a quirk in my macOS High Sierra development environment, not Kirby.

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ […]
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mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Only nine days behind on my feed after a well deserved vacation.

No spoliers, please.
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This update seems a bit ominous.
A screenshot of the Zoom Workplace application update window. The current version of the application s shown as 6.6.0. The available update version is 6.6.6.
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
What we now know as the “social web” — or Web 2.0 — didn’t arrive until around 2004. But the first inklings of it were emerging a couple of years before. As usual, music was the harbinger. In this week's Cybercultural, I look at the beginnings of Last.fm and Audioscrobbler […]
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mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The Kickstarter project for @bzotto’s book on the fascinatingly obscure Sphere computer is so close to be funded.

Go Computer Now!

https://gocomputernow.com/
Go Computer Now! - A Book About Sphere Corporation
gocomputernow.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
I've stumbled upon Marginalia Search, a non-commercial search engine for text-oriented websites. "Indexing the small, old and weird web" in their own words. A useful and pleasant discovery!

https://marginalia-search.com/
Marginalia Search
Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters. The goal is to bring you the sort of grass fed, free range HTML your grandma used to write.
marginalia-search.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The font used for “Tower” in the Yoot Tower logo is Badloc, the first commercial typeface I designed while working at Image Club Graphics.
https://digipres.club/@misty/115516779942773835
Misty (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Yoot Tower website in January, 1999 https://web.archive.org/web/19990117024141/http://www.yootmacfirst.com/
digipres.club
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Nosepilot!

https://nosepilot.com
https://follow.coryd.dev/@cory/115504259760701096
Cory Dransfeldt :demi: (@[email protected])
Copilot? Nopilot.
follow.coryd.dev
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I think Apple missed their opportunity to change the name of Xcode to 26code.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Truth.
https://bitbang.social/@RonsCompVids/115486729725318837
Ron's Computer Videos🖥️📼 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Everyday.
bitbang.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I can’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with this feedback form …

🤔

#ux #paperprotyping #copypastefail
A printed post card with a customer service form. The form has a dropdown menu and an optional comment field with a character limit. Again, this form is printed on paper.
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
mgifford.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
On Friday the Government of Canada released this position paper on Digital Sovereignty.

https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/cloud-services/digital-sovereignty/digital-sovereignty-framework-improve-digital-readiness.html

I would love to […]
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mastodon.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@stewf Saw this and for some odd reason immediately thought of you.
https://mastodon.social/@Edent/115480168593179186
Terence Eden (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image "Stylish beige"
mastodon.social
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hollerith bingo card
A paper bingo card with a 5 × 5 grid of numbers. The centre square of the grid is marked “Free” and a perforated semicircle has been popped out.
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Reposted by Grant Hutchinson
macgarden.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@splorp See if that helps. Cant separate as it's the MG category.
November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
splorp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I realize that the hashtag @macgarden is using in these posts is to flag “Control Panels” and “Extensions”, but my brain keeps reading it as “Control Panel Sex Tensions”.
https://bitbang.social/@macgarden/115472440360928847
MacintoshGarden Feed (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image UnRound https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/unround Tired of the Mac being too friendly? Don't you wish that it would be less "curvy"? Well, one of the nuts at The Syzygy Cult thought so, so he made UnRound. UnRound will change all of the rounded #macgarden #controlpanelsextensions #1995 #macneilshonle #syzygycult
bitbang.social
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM